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Text Castles 17 CASTLES OF THE COTSWOLDS The Cotswolds are rich in houses of all kinds and scales and periods, from shepherds’ and weavers’ cottages to royal mansions. They boast a greater density of fine houses than any comparable region in England, based on the wealth of wool, the presence of fine building stone and the conservatism of a rural area, which remained remote well into the twentieth century and where the pace of change was always slow. Yet the picture is not uniform, and representation is patchy. There are few feudal castles extant in the Cotswolds. The area was settled and peaceable from early times, though there was a feudal battle at Nibley Green, near Wotton-under-Edge, following a long drawn-out squabble over inheritances between William, Lord Berkeley, and Thomas Talbot, Viscount Lisle, as late as 1470, said to be the last, private, pitched battle in England. Domestic planning round courtyards, within moats and enclosing walls, and defensive features, such as embattled parapets and machicolations, are Above: Caption required (Beverston) Left: Berkeley Castle and terraces from the west: the shell keep to the left, dating from 1153, is the oldest part of Britain’s oldest inhabited castle. The Berkeley family have lived here for 900 years. The inner gatehouse is to the right. 18 COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE COTSWOLDS Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire as likely to be ornamental archaisms in chivalric taste as described tellingly as ‘the colour of old brocade’ in the old functional necessities. guide book by Vita Sackville-West. It is more than any other There were the usual timber castles, moats, and fortified in this book a place of superlatives. It claims to be England’s manor houses of which little or nothing remains. Above oldest continuously inhabited castle, the oldest domestic ground, Brimpsfield (a major castle of the Giffards), Newington building still in use in the county of Gloucestershire, and is Bagpath, Miserden and Upper Slaughter are post-Conquest remarkable for being continuously inhabited by the same mottes remaining as sometimes impressive mounds of earth, Berkeley (FitzHarding) family for 900 years. It dates from unexcavated, which bury their myriad secrets. The motte at 1117; the feudal shell keep of 1153–56 still stands, revetting Brimpsfield was succeeded by a stone castle, demolished by the earlier (1067) motte of the Norman magnate, William 1327. There is also some evidence of earthworks at Castle FitzOsbern. Godwyn, now known for its eighteenth-century house Berkeley Castle lies just outside the hill region proper, but described on page XX. Berkeley Castle is the noblest of all, a marcher castle The feudal Castle stands a rugged agglomeration in mauve-grey stone viewed over the level meadows commanding the great Vale of Severn. It stands proud on a from the south; in medieval times, these could be flooded at will for defence. stone ridge over the river meadows in an open-grained tufa Inner bailey. The hexagonal entrance tower (centre) leads to the great hall (left) and state rooms (right). The French Gothic doorway was inserted as part of thoroughgoing improvements in the stone with a pinky-grey tinge, by the percolation of iron, 1920s, following the sale of Berkeley Square. 20 COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE COTSWOLDS 21 the baronial territory, or ‘harness’, of the Berkeleys dominated a huge tract of the south Cotswolds, along the hills from Tetbury to the outskirts of Bristol and Gloucester. Numerous manor houses were built within it for cadet branches, relations, or sometimes henchmen and dependants, of the Berkeley overlords, of which not a few survive today, including Bradley Court, Dodington, Wanswell Court, Stoke Park, Little Sodbury, and Yate Court. The Berkeleys held several castles in the area, including one at Dursley, which the antiquary John Leland, visiting in 1540, described as, ‘fell to decay and is clean taken down’, and at Wotton-under-Edge. The latter was in truth a fortified courtier house, dismantled for its building materials in time for a visit by Henry VII to Berkeley Castle in 1491, and already a ruin by the date of Leland’s visit. Thomas, 8th Lord Berkeley, was the great builder of the family, building in the court Decorated style of the fourteenth century. To him we can attribute the building of Thorpe Tower and the extensive domestic range at Berkeley Castle, begun in 1326, adapting the feudal power base as a palatial residence in more settled times. The great hall, where the last jester in England fell to his death from the minstrels’ gallery as late as 1728, has a fine timber roof, screens from a Berkeley estate in Glamorganshire and the distinctive ‘Berkeley’ polygonal arches. It is flanked at the upper end by the state rooms (now two drawing rooms) and chapel (now the morning room), which has the translations from the Book of Revelations (1387) of John Trevisa, a castle chaplain, written faintly on the beams; and at the lower end by the octagonal kitchen and service rooms (shown as a dining room today). The Castle from the west with its Victorian overgrowth of ivy and topiary yews – now vanished – on the sheltered lower terrace. 22 COUNTRY HOUSES OF THE COTSWOLDS Beverston, Gloucestershire Beverston, near Tetbury, was also a Berkeley seat, and is the where he spent many months in the year’. He it was who was only Cotswold castle still standing. Although ‘many ages more lord of Berkeley Castle at the time of the grisly murder of ancient than Berkeley’, the best of what remains is relatively Edward II just three years before (in 1327). He upgraded the late, a fragment dating from the time of Thomas, 8th Lord comforts of the early defensive building as a fortified manor Berkeley. house for residential use, adding his Berkeley Tower – Beverston’s history is as old as England itself. Earl Godwin impressive work, built (according to Smyth) at the time of the held it as his headquarters with his sons in 1051, and set forth Black Death, in 1348–49. The west range of Thomas’s castle from here to do battle with Edward the Confessor. King still stands more or less intact, containing a solar above a Stephen and the Empress Matilda joined in combat here vaulted undercroft, and flanked at the angles with square before 1140. It was rebuilt and ‘turreted’ by Maurice de Gaunt, towers. ‘without the king’s licence’, shortly before he was given a An ingenious stair contrived within the walls ascends to permission to crenellate in 1229. Two round towers still stand Thomas’s private rooms. A first-floor chapel, with access to the from his small quadrangular bastion, with part of a solar and hall, is of the courtly standard we associate with him picturesque twin-towered gatehouse. In 1330, Thomas Berkeley purchased the manor, and over The castle block stands forlornly across the moat to the left, dating to a rebuild by Thomas Lord Berkeley in the 1360s. The present domestic wing to the right was probably added after a fire in 1691 the following six years, according to John Smyth, ‘much on the site of the medieval hall. repaired and beautified [the castle], with the park adjoining … The unrestored east gatehouse with a guardroom entrance and grooves for the portcullis. 24 at Berkeley, with the best Gothic detailing of any house in the besieged, defeated by stealth following the capture of the Cotswolds: vaulted ceilings, rich double sedilia with crocketed royalist commander, Colonel Oglethorpe, and slighted by heads, and a piscina. Above the chapel there is another private Colonel Massey, whose headquarters were at Chavenage, next oratory giving off Lord Berkeley’s chamber, which had a door. The castle has never recovered. Following a fire in 1691, circular window taking up virtually the whole west wall. The the present house, a long block with mullioned and transomed two-storey gatehouse to the east was probably added by him, windows, was built on the site of the medieval south range, of which one tower is extant. It has the usual guardrooms retaining the west wall. Inside there is a fine staircase with with lodging over, grooves for an immense portcullis in the oak balusters. archway, and a drawbridge over the moat. The Hicks-Beaches sold in 1842, when the estate was added Thomas Berkeley ran huge flocks of sheep here, consoli- to the Holford family’s extensive landholdings centred on dating sheep walks and shearing as many as 5,775 sheep in Westonbirt. The castle had already declined to a farmhouse 1333 in his manors round Beverston, where one year he and a model village was built to the order of the Holfords, stocked the demesne land with 1500 wethers. This was the with cottages lining the road probably designed by Lewis summit of Beverston’s short-lived prosperity, when it was a Vulliamy in simplified Tudor, with distinctive bargeboards and township with its own fair and market. Gothic porches. The descendants of one of Thomas’s younger sons, calling The castle lives on as a ruinous hulk of towers and ivy- themselves the Berkeleys of Beverstone, sold in 1597 to Sir mantled walls, pitted by time, impenetrable beyond the road John Poyntz. By 1612 Beverston was in the hands of Sir and a dry moat, with a medieval barn and church forming the Michael Hicks-Beach, of the same family as Sir Baptist Hicks, backdrop to a romantic garden. It was created by Mrs Arthur the great benefactor of Chipping Campden and ancestor of the Strutt after she bought the estate as war broke out in 1939, Earls St Aldwyn, who lived until 2008 at Williamstrip (a house Large hearth in the 1691 wing, rebuilt for the Hicks-Beach family on the scale of a comfortable manor designed largely by Sir John Soane and David Brandon, set the house.
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